Saturday, 25 April 2009

Well, my mother-in-law landed in St Jean de Luz today for the first time. Already the town has melted her. After a day spent in various cafes, listening to Basque music and enjoying delicious food there was no way she was going to be anything other than happy! As a result I now love St Jean de Luz even more.

Basque Bylines

Traversing the planet is always good for the soul but so is returning home. Following ten months in Outer Mongolia a Scotsman and his wife return from the Steppe. Back in St Jean de Luz the sun still sits high in the sky, Gateau Basque remains as tempting as ever and life in the Basque Country moves forever onwards at its own luxurious pace. Having answered one important question, one remains:

What makes gateau Basque taste so good?

[What made Chinggis Khaan so darned angry? Nothing rhymed with his name which as a budding poet grated heavily and have you ever tried to run the world's greatest ever empire from a ger on the remote Steppe surrounded by camels at -40C?]